August 24th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 24th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
Pick up a story	SCOOP
Go round for the meat	SKIRT
Don't you believe it!	FICTION
A number remaining divided	CLEFT
Certain to jump	BOUND
We set out to be nice	SWEET
Girls of nine, perhaps, in a bus	BUNNIES
Was he wasted?	TED
In drought conditions, it's only right to help out	ARID
Garment some blokes have a use for	BLOUSE
Is such farming fine when there's no rain about?	DAIRY
Handy American fuel product	USEFUL
Stirling letter from Moses	MOSS
Associate of the Port of London Authority?	PAL
Split sort of suit	DIVORCE
Rubbed out vice around Los Angeles	SLAIN
New coats of operatic character	TOSCA
A hat to start queuing for?	TOQUE
Divine female who chewed Tim's ear	ARTEMIS
He owns a fair bit in the outskirts of Loch Lomond	LAIRD
A name to look out for around the West End	PETER
Maybe cool for half an hour in the shade	COLOUR
Transgress for a bad purpose	OFFEND
The hole an orchestra may be in	PIT
Packs the drunken sots out of the way!	STOWS
Seriously and sorely upset about a bad start	SOBERLY
Not a sound union?	KNOT
Wanders around showing no love of oranges	RANGES
A bit of botany for the boys	SEPAL
Where a cab turns up, near Manchester	BACUP
Chap from Elgin	NIGEL
Trout, swimming around, can be instructive	TUTOR
Thick scattering of seed around the end of the garden	DENSE
One thinks of a line in chaff!	BRAIN
Foolish proof that not all adults get fat	DULLARD
The Indian food of a prophet in South Africa	SAMOSA
The ill-tempered officer was promoted	MOROSE
The talk of Liverpool	SCOUSE
Sir Bedivere's bird	DIVER
Sign of having stopped bleeding	SCAR
If you want my advice, look up "4 Down"	TIP

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